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Strangeways riots 25 years on: Lord Woolf 'prisons still failing'
It is exactly 25 years since rioting began at Strangeways prison in Manchester, the siege that resulted went on for 25 days. Two people died and hundreds were injured.
The inquiry into what happened was led by Lord Woolf, who later became Lord Chief Justice and is now chair of the Prison Reform Trust. It led to many changes not just at Strangeways but to the prison system as a whole
Lord Woolf said 鈥淢y impression is that things are developing into a situation which has so many reminders for me of the situation before Strangeways鈥.
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